Jean Paul: Quotes about the world

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“When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.”

Jean Paul

Jean-Paul Richter, Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education https://archive.org/details/levanaordoctrine02jean 1807 1865 translation p. 1

Men , Children , World , Education

“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”

Jean Paul

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 597.

World

“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”

Jean Paul

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.

World , Learning , Heart